Test 9 · ★★ · Pigs: mud, snouts and brains

«pigs r thick though» Which fact shows they are clever?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pigs, fact · What happens: be, show · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 210 «Pigs: mud, snouts and brains» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 thick	punct
2	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thick	nsubj
3	r	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	4 thick	cop
4	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shows	advmod
5	though	though	ADV	_	4 thick	advmod
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 thick	punct
7	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	8 fact	det
8	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shows	nsubj
9	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 clever	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 clever	cop
12	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shows	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	pigs	thick, though property	tree rules
2	show	present	which fact		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	pigs = pig	clever property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They forget everything after a minute, but they can learn to sit like a dog

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forget	nsubj
2	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 forget	obj
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 minute	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 minute	det
6	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forget	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 learn	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 learn	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 learn	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 learn	aux
11	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 forget	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 sit	mark
13	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 learn	xcomp
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 dog	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 dog	det
16	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	forget	present	They	everything	minute		tree rules
2	learn	can	they				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sit	to-infinitive	they not said here			like a dog	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They can read and write

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 read	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 read	aux
3	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 write	cc
5	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 read	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	can	They						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	write	infinitive	They not said here						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They can talk in words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 talk	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 talk	aux
3	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 words	case
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	can	They			words			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They learn names, solve puzzles and used a joystick in a study

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 learn	nsubj
2	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 learn	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 solve	punct
5	solve	solve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 learn	conj
6	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 solve	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 used	cc
8	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 learn	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 joystick	det
10	joystick	joystick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 used	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 study	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 study	det
13	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	learn	present	They	names		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic
2	solve	present	They not said here	puzzles		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Topic
3	use	past	They not said here	a joystick	a study	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joystick=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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